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Japan may have sold up to $59 billion in yen-buying intervention
By Atsuko Aoyama and Noriyuki Hirata
Reuters
Friday, July 31, 2026
TOKYO -- Japan may have sold as much as $58.97 billion in its latest efforts to bolster its currency, central bank data indicated today, signaling repeated efforts to stem the yen's weakness.
The Bank of Japan's projection for money market conditions for the following day suggests an 8.2 trillion yen net outflow of funds, compared with brokerage forecasts that range between a surplus of 1.4 trillion yen and a shortfall of 1.73 trillion yen.
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Yen-buying activity involves the BOJ soaking up the currency from markets, so any outsized shortfalls in funds can offer an estimate of the size of any intervention.
Japan conducted a yen-buying, dollar-selling intervention in New York on Thursday, according to a market source, its first such foray in three months, as the currency's slump to four-decade lows threatened to worsen living costs hit by the Iran war-driven energy shock. ...
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